I was driving south down 680 towards San Jose heading near Fremont area at around 9:20 when I noticed what appeared to be a string of lights in the sky ahead of me to the east. I noticed that objects were close as they were to my direct left after I drove about half a mile. I then could see that they were stationary in the sky and appeared to be "lantern/disc-like" structures that glowed gold. I pulled to the side of the highway and put on my emergency lights. They were in a formation that appeared to be like a scoop. They were silent and hovered over an open field maybe the equivalent of five or six city blocks away from where I was parked.

I was able to snap a few photographs what I had seen and when I was manipulating my digital camera to change settings to get a clearer picture, I looked up and noticed that the lights were quickly hovering and moving in unison southbound. I pulled my car back into traffic and continued driving south and noticed other vehicles pulled over to the side of the highway.The lights then seemed to disappear behind hills. I then noticed 2 fast aircraft with red lights flying toward the general vicinity of where I had seen the formation of lights. I drove 10 miles further south and switched over to 880 south via Mission and looked east and noticed an intensely bright gold light with a smaller light above it hovering over a distant town.